This Man Could Replace Comey As FBI Director

Everything You Should Know About The Man Who Could Replace Comey As FBI Director

The FBI could have a new leader very soon. Christopher Wray, a 50-year-old former federal prosecutor, is Trump's pick to be the new FBI director. The president nominated him in late June, about three weeks after he unexpectedly tweeted that Wray was his choice to lead the agency.

If Wray is confirmed by the Senate, he will oversee this investigation and spend up to 10 years leading the top law enforcement agency in the country.

So, who is Wray? Ahead, we list everything you should know about him.

He's worked for the federal government before

Wray graduated from the Yale Law School in 1992 and joined King and Spalding, an Atlanta-based law firm.

Five years later, he became an assistant U.S. attorney in Georgia. Then, in 2001, he joined the Department of Justice. There, he worked his way up to the position of assistant attorney general in charge of the department’s criminal division, a position to which he was nominated by President Bush in 2003.

The law firm where he works manages Trump's trust

According to Newsweek, another partner in Wray's firm, Bobby Burchfield, serves as an ethics adviser to the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, which the president established to hold his business assets while he's in office.

The Bush administration wanted to expand the National Security Agency’s domestic wiretapping program; Comey and other top Justice Department officials had concerns over whether using warrantless wiretaps was legal.

He is a Republican

He has worked on many big cases

While in the Department of Justice, Wray worked on investigations that ranged from the 9/11 terror attacks to overseeing drug trafficking, child pornography, and intellectual property cases while he led the criminal division.

At the end of today's hearing, the Senate Judiciary Committee didn't say when it would vote on a recommendation for the rest of the Senate. Once that vote takes place, the committee will send a report to the Senate outlining either a favorable or unfavorable recommendation for Wray's nomination. There's also a chance it can send a report with no recommendation whatsoever. After that, the full Senate can vote to confirm Wray.